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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gold Coast crowd. He made occasional slighting references to Society in his letters: "Last week I dined at the Quincys', the Amorys' & the Thayers', three as high-life places as are to be found in blue-blooded, blue stockinged, bean eating Boston." And in retrospect he wrote: "Once upon a time when I was in Cambridge I had serious thoughts of marrying a Boston girl and settling down in the Back Bay to spend the rest of my days. Such was the influence of four years of that... kind of association I am complaining about. By the grace...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Harvard | 12/13/1957 | See Source »

...Obviously, however, future loopholes will develop with changing situations as in any democratic body.... The suggestion that administration appointed students write the reports is in itself poorly made. Such a system would only take these reports far from the realm of student oriented opinion, as well as cast doubt upon the representative character of the report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNSELING THE COUNCIL | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

...response to complaints regarding its original offer of free admittance to a future Forum program, the Board decided to return purchase price upon presentation of tickets at 23 Everett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Forum Agrees To Give Admissions Refund | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

...first snow of the year fell upon the City...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Amateur Hour | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

...playwright makes each the torturer of the other two, and yet they are absolutely dependent upon one another. The journalist must win the respect of the Lesbian because she is the only courageous person left to him and thus his "salvation." She desires the love of the flutter-brained coquette who being devotedly hetero-sexual, will not yield. This woman's vanity demands the Lesbian as a mirror because there are no mirrors in hell. The coquette, in turn, asks love of the journalist, who only wants to prove to himself that he is not a coward, yet he cannot...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: No Exit and This Property Is Condemned | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

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